Contents:
- Medical Video: How to Breastfeed on an Airplane | Baby Travel
- Travel tips for breast cancer patients
- 1. Chemoport equipment
- 2. Network expanders
- 3. Treatment of syringes
- 4. Get to know your rights
Medical Video: How to Breastfeed on an Airplane | Baby Travel
Using aircraft as transportation is indeed faster and also through higher safety level. You must undergo body screening with a metal detector. For breast cancer patients who use the port chemotherapy tool may experience some things that interfere with comfort, namely when the chemotherapy device is detected metal detector. Here are some tips that you can do so that things like this do not disturb the comfort of your trip.
Travel tips for breast cancer patients
Depending on the level of security, applicable regulations, and the ability of metal detectors used. When you go through the screening process, maybe the detector will signal that there is metal in your body.
1. Chemoport equipment
Chemoport is usually placed under the skin of the chest or arm. The device can contain metal or not. When containing metal, the tool will be detected. To overcome this you need to provide an identity card that you must previously make with permission from the doctor. The card states that you (breast cancer patients) use the tool for chemotherapy. Usually this card contains a doctor's record of your condition complete with the place of practice, purpose, and location where the chemotherapy device is placed.
However, in some cases in various countries that apply strict rules, the identity card is not fully functional. You will be required to do a more thorough examination.
2. Network expanders
If you experience breast rearrangement using a breast implant, surely in your chest there is a tissue expander. In the network there is a magnet that aims to guide the plastic surgeon to find a valve to fill the salt into the expanders.
If the tool used is a metal detector that is in the form of a hand-held stick, then the tool will detect the salt content in your body. The thing to do is the same as before, that is showing an identity card containing your information as a breast cancer chemotherapy patient using a breast implant.
3. Treatment of syringes
If you carry an injection drug such as procrit or neupogen, you need a kind of syringe to put it in your body. When doing X-rays, you should prepare a doctor's certificate which includes the treatment you are taking and the prescription of the medication you are using to make it easier for officers to match the tools and drugs you carry with the certificate.
4. Get to know your rights
At the airport, you might be asked to do a more complicated examination than people in general. However, you also have to understand your limitations and rights as a passenger. The following are tips to keep the checks going smoothly and safely.
- Explain to the clerk that in your body there is a prosthesis (artificial body part) in your breast.
- Ask for the screening process with female officers and in a special room.
- Ask someone to accompany you, for example to help you wake up if you are using a wheelchair. If you don't want to, let the screening process be done while sitting.
- Do not agree if you are asked to lift your clothes or take off your clothes, do not remove the mastectomy bra (bra used in breast cancer patients) that you use.
- If you carry a mastectomy bra in your suitcase, ask the clerk not to confiscate it because this is part of the treatment.
Having breast cancer doesn't mean you can't take a vacation. When traveling and undergoing chemotherapy, breast cancer can indeed be a little burdensome. However, taking some precautions and making a plan beforehand can help speed up the process.
Talk to your doctor about documents that you might need and bring a copy of it to smoothly pass airport security and avoid unnecessary delays. With preparation in advance, you can get a comfortable trip.
